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Book Review: River Mumma by Zalika Reid-Benta
Alicia, the Protagonist of River Mumma is not having the best time. Her life is not going as well as she would like it to, she’s in a job she hates, and her college degree is not getting her the opportunities she hoped for. Also, she’s at a party and is the most wall hugging…
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Book Review: The Last Graduate & The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
This book review is going to be a two-for-one deal in part because it took me a while to get around to reading them. The grimdark with a tiny sliver of hopepunk that is Novik’s Scholomance Trilogy was a lot for me to take in, so I was slightly nervous about what was going to…
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Book Review: The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip
This review is for the 50th Anniversary edition of Patricia McKillip’s eerie and at times disturbing story of the wizard Sybel, who is collector and caretaker of a menagerie of magical and legendary animals. This edition has an introduction by Marjorie M. Liu (Monstress, Dark Wolverine) and a foreword by Gail Carriger (The Parasol Protectorate,…
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Bloganuary: Can you share a positive example of where you felt loved?
Wow. I really don’t like this question. The level of my dislike of this question is above 9000. This is because the answer is “no,” and that makes it seem as if I’m more traumatized/anxious than I actually am. Instead of you know, simply being just enough anxious and traumatized that I have never really…
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Bloganuary: Where can you reduce clutter in your life?
This response is going to be “how I prevent clutter because I can’t deal with clutter,” more than it’s going to be “where can you reduce clutter in your life.” This is because I generally try to be as organized as possible due to a combination of executive dysfunction and Can’t Remember Shit. Many of…
